Our recently completed feature length film on the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus has been selected as the official movie of the upcoming World Youth Day in Madrid Aug 16-21 2011. Our Italian friars just watched the whole film for the first time as an institute on Sunday, Dec 26. Below is a special poster we made for the occasion complete with the Madrid WYD (JMJ) logo. A rough trailer can be seen here. The DVD should be available with English subtitles in early 2011. We will keep you posted.

The translation of the poster is as follows

Duns Scotus

The Doctor of the Immaculate

Producer: Fr. Alfonso M. Bruno, FI

Director: Fernando Muraca

With Adriano Braidotti as John Duns Scotus

Official Movie of the Madrid World Youth Day 2011

John Duns Scotus successfully defends Mary’s Immaculate Conception in the dispute at the University of Paris in 1305

December 8th 1854 Pope Pius the IX solemnly proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Beatified by John Paul II on March 2oth, 1993

Exclusive preview for the Franciscans of the Immaculate on Sunday, December 26, 2010 at 9pm in the auditorium of St. Mary of Nazareth Parish, Casalotti, Rome

Ave Maria!

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Ave Maria! Yes, we are front runners for the ‘Silver Fish Award’ at the Vatican’s International Catholic Film Festival in the categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress for the feature length motion picture that the FI’s in Italy produced titled “Duns Scoto” on the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus. The other two films that are also finalists, and with which we are competing, are listed below. These finalists were chosen from a total of 746 films. The announcement will be made before the festival ends this Saturday, May 21, probably on Thursday. This is a great opportunity to put a spotlight on Bl. John Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholar, who gave the theological foundation for the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, winning the title ‘The Marian Doctor’. It is also a great boost to our worldwide media efforts. Please keep us in your prayers that we win.

Best Film – Best Director – Best Actor / Actress

Duns Scoto by Fernando Muraca, Italy 2010 – 90 ‘- The story of the medieval philosopher John Duns, also called Scotus because of his nationality (Scotland), who lived between the thirteenth and fourteenth century. The film is produced by the Franciscans of the Immaculate.

God’s Mighty Servant by Markus O. Rosenmüller, Germany 2010 – 2 x 90 ‘- The story of Sister Pasqualina, and the special role she had in the life of Pius XII, masterfully played by Remo Girone.

Marcelino pan y vino by José Luis Gutierrez, Mexico 2011 – 110 ‘ – Remake of the famous film. The main hero (an orphan in love with Jesus) is played here by a remarkable child actor. The action takes place

The film was Co-produced by TVCO, a multimedia production company based in Naples, Italy, which is also the executive producer and the international distributor of the work.

You can read more about the film festival at the National Catholic Register

You can see more on this film Duns Scoto with these AirMaria articles:

Fi News – Our Duns Scotus Film Selected for World Youth Day Madrid

FiNews – Rome Reports Covers FI Scotus Film

Video – Fi News #73: First Trailer of Duns Scotus Film

FiNews – FIs Producing John Duns Scotus Film

Ave Maria!

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The dogma of the Immaculate Conception is phrased negatively–that Mary never was touched by sin–but it has a very positive meaning as expressed in Her God-given name of “Full of Grace”. Historically, the greatest defender of this dogma was the Franciscan Order, and it was Bl. John Duns Scotus that provided the theological understanding that was later proclaimed as dogma. Saint Maximilian Kolbe saw this dogma as a ‘blueprint’ of the Church, and that getting the dogma proclaimed was only as the first half of the Franciscan Order’s calling. Now that the dogma was proclaimed, it was time to incorporate it into the life of the Church by the spirituality of Total Consecration to the Immaculate. Let us make the act, let us live the life, let us allow Her to use us as instruments for the salvation and sanctification of souls.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings: 
1st: gen 3:9-15, 20
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
2nd: eph 1:3-6, 11-12
Gsp: luk 1:26-38

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Although the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary isn’t recorded in the Sacred Scripture, there are good reasons for believing in this event, which is recorded in other hagiographical and apocryphal writings. Father uses the logic of Blessed John Duns Scotus to argue that it is indeed correct to celebrate the Presentation of Mary.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast

Readings: Tuesday 33rd Week of Ordinary Time
1st: 2 Macc 6:18-31
Resp: Ps 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-8
Gsp: Lk 19:1-10

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 20, 2020, on how our Honoring of Mary is rooted in being centered on Christ and having a high regard for Mary keeps us centered on Christ.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Monday 2nd Week of Easter – Wkdy
Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/042020.cfm
1st: act 4:23-31
Resp: psa 2:1-3, 4-6, 7-9 0
Gsp: joh 3:1-8

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We take a break from Fr. Peter Fehlner’s “The Theologian of Auschwitz” in order to look at his article criticizing the German theologian Karl Rahner, SJ. After a philosophy-heavy presentation of his Kantian foundations, we explore how he was trying to re-found theology after the critiques of modern philosophy of Aristotelian assumptions.

However, as Fr. Peter point out and Dr. J. Isaac Goff explains to us, Bonaventure and Scotus saw and responded to these same weaknesses centuries before without falling into the dangers of either agnosticism or pantheism contained in Rahner and the Transcendental Thomists.

00:00:00 Opening
00:01:23 Start of Fehlner article on Rahner
00:02:45 Basic Themes of themes
00:03:40 Questions addressed by Rahner
00:06:30 The German attach on metaphysics
00:08:30 What is the Noumenon: Thinking agnostic of existence
00:12:45 Kantian a priori
00:13:00 Phenomenal experience vs. Noumenal beyond
00:15:35 Starting point: The Transcendental “I”
00:16:18 Transcendental Knowledge
00:17:10 What is Transcendental Thomism?
00:18:15 Two Interpretations of “Anthropological Shift”
00:20:45 Quote from Fr. Peter, p. 74
00:21:58 Three Protestant Hot Topics
00:22:25 What is a Theologoumenon?
00:24:24 Deconstruction of Metaphysics: Descartes, Berkeley, Hume
00:27:25 Personal Experience: Phenomenon and Noumenon
00:31:07 Program of the Article, p. 75
00:32:00 Transcendental Christology vs Christocentrism
00:33:30 Freedom for Rahner and Fehlner’s Critique
00:40:20 Fehlner on Transcendental Freedom
00:42:35 Contemporary emphasis on “values” is Kantian
00:44:00 Other Definitions: Creaturality, Transc. Experience, Person
00:45:50 Metaphysical is cancelled
00:48:10 Knowledge at core as a-thematic, Fehlner’s Critique
00:59:15 Kant and the adjective “pure” w/ a priori, a posteriori
01:01:00 Kant: agnosticism’s daddy
01:03:00 Goff responds
01:07:20 Limitations of Aristotelian Philosophical Psychology
01:11:40 Rahner trying to address Kant, Hegel, and Heideggar
01:15:40 Bonaventure and Scotus already addressed them
01:21:00 Something rational–preconceptual but not empty–in our mode of being
01:21:45 Fundamental point of Fr. Peter: priority of contemplative consciousness
01:26:00 Essential vs Accidental Order
01:28:00 Rahner has intuition, but…
01:30:15 A correct Anthropological Shift
01:32:50 Fehlner’s Fundamental Critique of Rahner
01:35:00 Is preconceptual being empty of meaning?
01:36:45 Scotus corrects Bonaventure on the centering of theology
01:37:30 Absolute Christocentrism collapses God-in-himself into God-with-us
01:41:30 Concept of Being: A-thematic vs Meaningless
01:44:30 Incomprehensibility does not mean absence of knowledge
01:49:15 Essentialism versus Existentialism
01:56:45 Critique of Essentialism
01:59:25 Critique of Existentialism
02:01:45 Franciscan Essentialism: Any living thing is first something
02:04:30 Anarchism vs Radically “archic” Trinity
02:09:45 Baptizing the Neumenal: Light, Fittingness, Language
02:12:45 Scotus departs from Scholasticism on Language
02:14:25 Hume and Locke vs Newman and Scotus
02:19:45 Being is higher than Understanding
02:20:30 Start planning for next time
02:23:55 Blessing

Ave Maria!

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We take a break from Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner’s book “The Theologian of Auschwitz” and instead look at a paper of his from the 1960’s on Person and Grace from the perspective of St. Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus.
The Theologian of Auschwitz: https://www.lectiopublishing.com/books.php?b=16Course
Syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HB8IdpWaqzeCKZT3H7USoPSe_9R6tO-eEw3oGlCUOps/edit?usp=sharing
Dr. Goff’s Acadamia.edu page: https://bcs-us.academia.edu/JIsaacGoffPlaylist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLejh_e0-LN4xW3K_TNHt6mPocdcGs8qSQ

00:00:00 Start
00:00:10 Point of the article: Sanctifying grace in life of believer and in Christ’s humanity
00:00:42 Looking at Soul in Grace, Scotus Vs Neo-Thomists and their quasi-formal causality
00:01:37 Sanctifying grace and the Analogy of Formal Causality
00:02:42 Created Actuation of Uncreated Act in Self-Communication of the Divine to the Creature
00:06:02 Scotistic analysis of Person and Personality: Univocity and Disjunctive Transcendentals
00:13:57 Sanctifying Grace in Franciscan School
00:16:26 Essential Ordered Causes: Will and Spirit, Con-determination
00:19:37 Will and the whole Person
00:22:29 Habit of Sanctifying Grace
00:23:02 Franciscans vs. Thomists on Natural Desire for God
00:25:17 Two different act of love: Natural or Charity
00:27:52 Sanctifying Grace just is Divine Charity
00:28:57 Love/Caritas: So what is it
00:33:28 Grace does not act freely in you, you act freely in grace
00:35:32 Divine Acceptance = Merit?
00:40:07 Pure Perfections
00:40:37 Participation and Relation
00:44:52 Divine Persons and Human Persons
00:50:52 Created Human Nature becoming personal
00:57:17 Person as termination of a rational nature
01:00:42 Personification and Personalization of Jesus and Mary
01:08:57 This new norm is the first norm: Jesus and Mary-Spirit

Ave Maria!

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Does Mary teach us Theology? We explore a work of Fr. Peter’s written after a life-changing encounter with the Mother of God where he examines what it means to teach theology and to be taught theology, concluding that Mary has a primary role in understanding interiorly what Jesus teaches publicly.

He does this by examining what knowledge is, how it is taught by the Son and the Holy Spirit, and how Mary is so full of the Holy Spirit that she becomes the visible manifestation of his witnessing to Jesus. To do this, he pulls on St. Bonaventure’s accounts of teaching and the Trinity with Scotus on the Immaculate Conception.

The Theologian of Auschwitz: https://www.lectiopublishing.com/books.php?b=16Course
Syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HB8IdpWaqzeCKZT3H7USoPSe_9R6tO-eEw3oGlCUOps/edit?usp=sharing
Dr. Goff’s Acadamia.edu page: https://bcs-us.academia.edu/JIsaacGoff
Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLejh_e0-LN4xW3K_TNHt6mPocdcGs8qSQ

00:00:00 Start presentation: Mary and Theology
00:00:25 Where to find it
00:01:47 Life Context of the Article
00:03:41 Fehlner’s Itinerarium in mentis Deum
00:05:03 Article as described by Fr. Peter
00:06:47 Introduction: De Maria numquam (satis)
00:08:30 Structure of Article
00:10:15 Chapter 1: Magisterium Theologicum
00:10:37 Knowledge… possibility, beginning, perfection
00:11:32 No teacher: Autonomous and Objective?
00:16:17 Teaching… possibility, beginning, perfection
00:16:47 Notions on Teaching: First Teacher, Trinitarian, Without/Within, Teaching in Church
00:18:47 Terms: Faith, Non-evident, Development, Witness
00:22:05 Teaching in Creation/Natural Knowing
00:25:12 Teaching in Faith and by Revelation
00:26:52 Coordinated Teachers: Son and Holy Spirit
00:28:47 From Bonaventure (Triplex Verbum) to Scotus (Absolute Primary and Immaculate Conception)
00:31:27 Son and Spirit in their Visible Terms
00:33:59 Primary Term of Holy Spirit in the Church
00:36:17 Is the Church the Spirit’s Primary Visible Term?
00:41:47 Mary as Primary Visible Term: Reading from Text
00:49:57 Ch 2: I am the Immaculate Conception: The Debitum
00:53:17 The Immaculate Conception as Fullness of Grace: Reading from Text
01:02:57 Ch 3: Theology and Theological Method: Mary as Teacher
01:06:37 Theology and Authority
01:09:21 Authoritative Teaching from Within
01:12:27 Mary’s Witness
01:15:42 Her Cumulative Influence is the Development of Doctrine
01:18:22 Co-ordination between Tradition and the Faithful Catholic
01:19:29 Conclusion: Mary and the Renewal of Theology called for by Vatican II
01:22:24 Conclusion: Theology as Ascesis of the Mind
01:24:47 Conclusion of Article
01:27:47 Closing time

Ave Maria!

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on May 03, 2023, where he continues his series on Franciscan Spirituality, focusing today on the masterpiece of God’s love, which is the incarnation of Christ.

In Franciscan spirituality, love or charity is central, and the incarnation of Christ is considered the masterpiece of God’s love. Love is diffusive, pouring itself out for the one it loves (1 John 4:16 – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1john/4?16). Jesus Christ, the God-man, is the only one in creation capable of welcoming and returning God’s love completely. Blessed John Duns Scotus’ thinking reflects this, stating that God first loves Himself and secondly, loves Himself in others.

The hypostatic union, the union of Christ’s human nature to the person of the Word, represents the highest, most perfect union outside of the Trinity. The love of God and the universal love of neighbor find their perfect home in Jesus’ heart. St. Francis of Assisi, deeply moved by Jesus’ love, prayed for the grace to love Him as He wanted to be loved.

St. Bonaventure advises passing through the wounds of Jesus to delve deeper into God’s love, as it is through the wounds of Christ that we can penetrate into the most sacred heart of Jesus. To reach the heights of love and the spiritual life, we must fix our thoughts and hearts on Jesus and Mary, contemplating the masterpiece of love, Jesus hanging on the cross for us.

00:00 – Introduction
00:09 – The Role of Love in Franciscan Spirituality
00:34 – The Incarnation of Christ: God’s Greatest Work of Love
01:30 – Jesus Christ: The First Willed by the Trinity
02:56 – Jesus Christ: The Masterpiece of God
03:24 – The Incarnation: Not a Response to Sin
04:56 – The Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Perfect Union of Love
05:33 – St. Francis’ Contemplation of the Heart of Jesus
06:51 – The Love in Christ’s Death
07:23 – Delving Deeper into the Love of God through the Wounds of Jesus
08:39 – Finding Joy and Light in the Masterpiece of Love: Jesus on the Cross

This is a continuation of his series of homilies on Franciscan Spirituality – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNN151zTIO4&list=PLejh_e0-LN4xgMllKrzSasL2Hljd5BHom

The material for this series comes primarily from Ciccarelli, Marciano M., “I capisaldi della spiritualità francescana” in Italian, which translates as “The Cornerstones of Franciscan Spirituality”. No English translations exist at the time of this recording.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Sts. Philip and James – Feast
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/050323.cfm
1st: 1co 15:1-8
Resp: psa 19:2-5
Gsp: joh 14:6-14

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